02/28/2021 Sunday Monk Seal Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Team T&D, Team R&B, Melody and Marilyn.  Marilyn's Rabbit Island update is part two of the dailies.

Team T&D sent news from their Saturday sightings. They saw 10 seals, a long hot hike on soft sand and climbing over rocky areas was WELL WORTH IT! One of the sightings was RK74 and they just saw the day before at La'au. A very cool experience was seeing both R1KT and RG22 and having seen them before on Oahu.

Team R&B began their morning with Kaale RH32 foraging in the

outfall for a good chunk of time. At one point he had a stick fish and was ripping and tossing it about. Very cool to watch! After three hours of foraging and watching over him, Kaale left the site and headed towards tracks. They followed him and of course he arrived right in front of the fishermen (again). They called the hotline and were told there was a team on site. Thats when they spotted the volunteers. They eventually put up signs and ropes.

Team R&B headed to KoOlina and got to watch over R1KM on shore at Lagoon 2. There was a zone set up for her and Team R&B just missed the volunteer. There were some tourist standing by, when one of the guys walk up to the front of the seal and splash water to make the seal move and the other folks took photos.  

Team R&B couldn't help themselves and yelled out Sir, Please don't do that! The guy stopped and walked over to ask questions. They answered his questions and made sure he understood the Hawaiian monk seals are protected by both State and Federal Laws.   Once Team R&B finished talking with him they could focus on R1KM, she is looking nice and plump. Her natural bleach was showing on the left side making it easy to ID. She has three cookie scars on her chest area, scar on her right for flipper, and her bright red tags.

At another west side location they found five seals on the rocks. It was extremely windy making standing still a challenge.  RW02 PvKauai was in the shallows playing hippo. R3CX Nalu was with Kala RH76 to the right of the rocks. R3CU was at mid rocks resting and Kekoa RK72 wasn't too far away.

Team R&B went and did a recheck at tracks. They found a second seal RN14 Kalani with his bosom

buddy Ka'ale RH32 on shore. The fishermen were all still there and more people out and about in the water with their boogie boards. The volunteers were gone, and ropes were down. There were a couple of signs there and the tide was rising fast, even the seals were moving up higher.

Melody got a text that a seal hauled out at Iroquois and she thought of Rocky. Melody made the ride since she hadn't seen her in a while. When she arrived there was a family way too close.  Melody was able to ID Rocky RH58 by her natural bleach on left fore flipper. Melody did her best to educate the family and since the beach was really crowded she called it into the hotline. Gratefully a volunteer responded even though it was late in the afternoon.  Good to hear our old gal Rocky is back in the neighborhood. 

R1KT 

RG22

RK78

RK94

RK98 and  R7AW

RKB0

RN21

RT22

RH32  Kaale

Kaale at tracks

R1KM

RH76 Kala

Kala RH76 and R3CX Nalu

R3CU 

Kekoa RK72

RW02 PvKauai

Kalani RN14 and Kaale RH32

Rocky RH58

01/22/2021 Friday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team Billand and Melody.

Melody got word this morning there was a seal at one of the west side beaches. She decided to check it out and when she arrived the seal was in a zone that was set up by the lifeguards. The beach was full of people so it was appreciated they had put up a zone. Melody tried to get an ID on the seal, knowing it was a female but she wasn't being so cooperative. By process of elimination and a couple of markers she thought it was Rocky. She called the hotline to report and they let her know they already had it logged as Rocky.  Melody's friend Sandra met up with her at the beach a few hours later. After a bit they saw the critter was moving and her flippers had tags and immediately ruled out Rocky. They were able to get the tag was 1KM with is the 3 year old Kauai girl 1KN. Melody called the hotline so they could correct the log.  Nice way to spent Aloha Friday.  

Melody also sent a video of Kalani RN14 and Lefty RG28 playing in the surf. It's always nice to see

them in motion.

Team Billand found Ka'ale RH32 and Kalani RN14 playing together at the outfall. They were going at it for the longest time until Kalani departed and headed for tracks, hauled out and hauled out alone. They went over to check and Lefty RG28 came in. The two boys were playing along the shoreline. When they hauled out they looked like "shake and bake" all sandy.

Team Billand found Kolohe RW22 was hauled out on the rocks. It appears he as a new wound on his nose.

They found RL42 at another west side location by the homes on the shore all alone.

At the bay was RN44 in his usual spot. Nalu R3CX was also at the bay on the rocks but away from RN44.

At another westside location they found the lovely Lei Ola RH48 on lower rocks sleeping alone.  And Mr, Kekoa RK72 was on top rocks alone.

Team Billand did one last check at Tracks and they found the three boys, Kaale, Lefty and Kalani hauled out on shore snoozing.

1KN

Video of Kalani and Lefty playing 

Ka'ale and Kalani

Kalani RN14

Lefty RG28

Lefty and Kalani all sandy aka shake and bake

Kolohe RW22

Kolohe has a new wound

RL42 Leia

RN44

R3CX Nalu

Kekoa RK72

Lei Ola RH48

Kaale, Lefty and Kalani